[piers]

My advice - leave the .FRM and .MYD files well alone. If you can remote desktop in (is it running on a windows server?) then bring up a command prompt and edit it using that. Have a look at this - http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20040609/806/

My second piece of advice would be to get a better host and sysadmin...

[piers]

[e-mail] is the gtalk email address

[flooha]

Invited you on google talk, but you're listed as not connected.

[piers]

Sorry, forgot I wasn't connected...